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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#102 · Quote Reply

I tried Librewolf for a while before switching to Waterfox. Librewolf has more built-in privacy features, but unfortunately it's just enough to make web browsing a little inconvenient. For example, Librewolf doesn't accurately tell a website what your timezone is, so the opening/closing hours on a store's website will sometimes be inaccurate.

I guess I still prefer trying to make waterfox more secure if I feel it's not good enough over trying to unfuck what I don't care about in libre wolf to make it work better.

I was fine on firefox , so I'll just stick to waterfox. thanks for your reply

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#103 · Quote Reply

He moved from Sweden to Silicon Valley, made a bunch of money, but came to hate the "limousine liberal" culture, and felt he was severely discriminated against (in a professional sense) as a hetero white man. So he left California, got sober, and went full time FOSS developer. He is an asshole because he now enforces a strict "anti-woke" policy among his contributors, and bans anyone who falls ...

very in depth, thank you

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Mexigore lemmy.world Mexigore@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-12
#104 · Quote Reply

FireDragon based on Floorp

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Katana314 lemmy.world Katana314@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-09
#105 · Quote Reply

It's pretty shocking that Firefox has so much use here! In a quick scan through the thread, I haven't seen ANY Chrome users! But it's supposed to be the clear winner of the browser wars, how come so many Lemmy users avoid it? I'm not complaining mind you, I use Firefox itself, but the cultural difference is striking. I've been thinking a bit at how users self-select in different communities. I ...

As a web dev: Remember IE6? The stagnation, self-prioritization with nonstandard features, laden with spyware? That’s Chrome now. They’ll egg websites into enabling proprietaryBullshitStandard() when it’s still just webkitProprietaryBullshitStandard() and give little room for discussion. Their “move fast and break the web” attitude is why Edge, which used to be a unique browser maintaining a third competing rendering engine, gave up and became a Chrome fork. The team at Microsoft couldn’t even keep up with Chrome’s bullshit, and now 90% of the browsers people list just use their engine.

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jtrek startrek.website jtrek@startrek.website
Joined: 2026-02-22
#106 · Quote Reply

Firefox. It's fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing's caused me enough pain to switch yet

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Toes♀ ani.social Toes@ani.social
Joined: 2023-09-28
#107 · Quote Reply

Firefox-esr. This is the old stable branch of Firefox intended for corpo use. Solid, battle-tested.

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irelephant [he/him] lemmy.dbzer0.com irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
#108 · Quote Reply

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#109 · Quote Reply

Firefox. It's fine. The ai stuff is concerning , but nothing's caused me enough pain to switch yet

!waterfox@programming.dev is literally identical to Firefox, but the AI removed

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gwl [he/him] lemmy.blahaj.zone gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-10-16
#110 · Quote Reply

Waterfox desktop, Fennec mobile

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jtrek startrek.website jtrek@startrek.website
Joined: 2026-02-22
#111 · Quote Reply

!waterfox@programming.dev is literally identical to Firefox, but the AI removed

Hm maybe I'll try that. Looks like there's an android version

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CannedYeet lemmy.world CannedYeet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
#112 · Quote Reply

The last switch I made was on mobile I went from Brave (for ad blocking) to Firefox since Firefox for Mobile has extensions and I found a good cookie whitelisting extension.

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durinn programming.dev emotional_soup_88@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-11-22
#113 · (edited) Quote Reply

Nice try, Stephen Fry.

Kidding.

Android smartphone: Brave

Linux desktop: LibreWolf

Windows virtual machine: Mullvad Browser

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sveltecider lemmy.ca sveltecider@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-03-01
#114 · Quote Reply

Mac and iPhone: safari. Mac secondary: mullvad. Linux: waterfox

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meow discuss.tchncs.de meow@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2026-01-24
#115 · Quote Reply

Icecat for pc, lightning for phone

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JojoWakaki lemmy.world jojowakaki@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-19
#116 · Quote Reply

Qutebrowser.

I had to scroll a bit too much to find this.

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Octagon9561 lemmy.ml Octagon9561@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-09
#117 · Quote Reply

Firefox

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Jankatarch lemmy.world Jankatarch@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-12
#118 · (edited) Quote Reply

waterfox and librewolf mainly.
links2 with -g if I am in a tty terminal.
Dillo for my super-minimalist setups.

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Spaniard lemmy.world Spaniard@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#119 · Quote Reply

Firefox mainly and some forks (Floorp, Librefox, Fennex, Ironfox) also Vivaldi

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Appoxo lemmy.dbzer0.com Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#120 · Quote Reply

Firefox on Android, iPad and PC.

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Appoxo lemmy.dbzer0.com Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2023-07-01
#121 · Quote Reply

Nice try, Stephen Fry. Kidding. Android smartphone: Brave Linux desktop: LibreWolf Windows virtual machine: Mullvad Browser

Kinda weird to use brave on Android but then use LibreWolf on Linux, no?

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durinn programming.dev emotional_soup_88@programming.dev
Joined: 2025-11-22
#122 · (edited) Quote Reply

Kinda weird to use brave on Android but then use LibreWolf on Linux, no?

I don't use the sync functions on browsers anyway, so it's of no consequence. Privacy wise, Brave is already built on top of degoogled chrome and the fingerprinting resistance of LibreWolf and the Tor Browser derived Mullvad Browser is too good not to use when possible. I haven't vetted any Firefox based browsers for Android yet as I have done with LibreWolf and Mullvad Browser for desktop, and Brave integrates really well with Android - as in, the user experience is great - so... XD

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#123 · Quote Reply

Firefox tweaked to the point it'd really make more sense to start with waterfox/librewolf if I didn't already have the momentum. Vivaldi is slicker, but I think it's important to support an engine besides chromium

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redsand infosec.pub redsand@infosec.pub
Joined: 2025-04-09
#124 · Quote Reply

What is ladybird?

1000004662

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NotASharkInAManSuit lemmy.world NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-05-06
#125 · Quote Reply

LibreWolf is the only right answer.

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YeahIgotskills2 lemmy.world YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-22
#126 · Quote Reply

Netscape Navigator

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callistocodes lemmy.blahaj.zone callistocodes@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-06-19
#127 · Quote Reply

What’s the advantage of emacs-w3m

If you use Emacs, it’s the fastest way to do something like “pull all this data out of a page, clean it, put it in a table, and change the column order”

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cdzero lemmy.ml cdzero@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2025-09-20
#128 · Quote Reply

Primary: Zen Browser. Reserve: Edge Zen was the beginning it was little odd but now I love it. Fast, feels great to use and no nonsense. I can't use either Zen or Firefox at work so there I use Edge. Edge is also a nice browser, I really like the sidebar for mail and drop.

I love Zen.

I'm in the same situation with Edge at work, it's surprisingly not THAT bad. I'd probably use it over Chrome if ever the need to make that decision came up.

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#129 · Quote Reply

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its still watchin u

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BurgerBaron piefed.social BurgerBaron@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-25
#130 · Quote Reply

Ironfox mobile, Librewolf desktop.

Occasionlly Vivaldi if I have to use chromium for something on rare occasion.

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Nickelalloy lemmy.world Nickelalloy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-02
#131 · Quote Reply

Vivaldi, so far very happy with it!

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sveltecider lemmy.ca sveltecider@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-03-01
#132 · Quote Reply

Vivaldi, so far very happy with it!

How is it in terms of privacy?

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Random Dent lemmy.ml CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2023-06-01
#133 · Quote Reply

Floorp, a Firefox fork. It's fine, just trying it out. And Firefox on mobile.

I use Floorp too. It's a weird little browser but I like it

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Nickelalloy lemmy.world Nickelalloy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-02
#134 · Quote Reply

How is it in terms of privacy?

I just had a quick search, I can be wrong so do not take these as facts but some parts seems to be open source and some UI parts closed, like many web browsers they get sone revenues from a start page but the owners seems very decent and advocates for internet privacy since the 1999.

Also they are based in EU which i trust way more than US servers.

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